iPRAY

VERSE 1
Pass through the city gates Nairobi cityscapes
Home of the fiend, the streetkids and the syndicates
But still children are dreaming to be like Billy Gates
Filthy state is the frame of mind of people in this place
They made a movie about it they call it Half-Life
Vocation hard grind desperation hard times
Digging in the trash cans looking for plastic
It’s tragic that a whole generation is static
Men in the ghetto are like fresh Hiphop
Hard to come by them been gun down by de cops
Of course it’s a war zone hawkers city council
Power company a mess yes we blaze candles
Politics wrangles handcuffs are the bangles
Story of a people obtuse like the angles
In shambles is the fabric we call society
So quietly I pray to God for change and sobriety

CHORUS
Hear my cry.. hear my cry oh God
Cover us with your hand take us back to your plan
You’re the hope.. you’re the we need
You’re the help we seek Father restore Nairobi

VERSE 2
Yo! We from the East Coast check your atlas
No audience in the show braat every time the gat claps
We work hard even though they overtax us
Fat cats can’t stop people with a purpose
From the adults to the pampers the youth in the campus
We be like the East African yes we raise the standard
Change that we wanna see is what we become and
Pray that people don’t look for solutions in the pangas
Tribe divides us the flag unifies us
Sin dirtifies us Jesus sanctifies
Hostiles but the Holy Spirit pacifies us
I pray that people get to see clear Bartimeus
We export great coffee we export presidents
It’s evident there is greatness flowing in the residents
Heaven sent is the help Christ is the answer
I preach truth and hope in each and every stanza

CHORUS

VERSE 3
Salute to the urban missionaries
Yeah
Salute to the young but visionaries
Yeah check this
There is beauty in the grime bro and in the shabby
There are roots in the ground yo and in the nappy
The race is not for Usain Bolt or Rudisha
Neither the battle for Bruce Lee or John Cena
There is hope for Nairobi there is hope for my city
There is hope for my people even those who don’t believe me
If the sky is the limit what a space shuttles for?
So take the bull by the horns like El Matador
Take charge on your knees take charge intercession
Lord we Thee we need divine intervention
With You Lord we constitute the majority
Luke 10:19 we’ve been given the authority

CHORUS